{"id":17378,"date":"2013-03-23T06:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=17378"},"modified":"2016-06-28T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T01:04:12","slug":"modern-quilt-studios-quiltcon-homework-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/modern-quilt-studios-quiltcon-homework-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Quilt Studio’s QuiltCon Homework #4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am continuing on with the QuiltCon Homework that Weeks Ringle issued in February.\u00a0Number 4 is ‘Reflect’. Weeks wrote “Reflect<\/b>. Who you will be tomorrow as a quilter doesn\u2019t have to be who you were yesterday. What would you like to learn?”<\/p>\n

I want to continue to explore my quiltmaking as an expression of my creativity. I could do anything to express my creativity, but quiltmaking is what is making me happy (as Tanesha at CraftyGardenMom says) right now. I don’t expect that to change, though I am having fun with my little forays into bookmaking, Tsukineko inks, scrapbooking and journal making.<\/p>\n

Mark Lipinski<\/a> has had several good episodes of Creative Mojo lately where he talks with other artist quiltmaker types and the things they say really spoke to me on a “what to do next level.” The guests said things like reorganizing their fabrics so it looks different; getting rid of things (old news, moving on), making a creative block day a “writing day”, thinking about things differently, making an effort at self-care. All of these things are real food for thought for me. I don’t spend much time in the creative block zone, but it happens. Having options is a good thing. Ice cream, too.<\/p>\n

tomorrow, I want to be a quiltmaker who doesn’t have to classify herself as a modern quiltmaker or a traditional quiltmaker or an art quiltmaker. I want to take the best of all of those and move my creative life forward. I want to bring my quiltmaking more into my daily life. that will be a challenge, since I sew as much as humanly possible, have projects everywhere ready to pick up at a moment’s notice and will cancel plans in order to sew. I guess I will have to stop tidying up the house and get someone to do that for me. Any volunteers? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I also want to continue to learn and evolve. I want to adopt new tools and techniques and continue to improve the quality of my work. I’d like to sell a quilt to a collector (that is a secret wish, so don’t tell) and I’d like to stop being lazy and enter more shows.<\/p>\n

What about you?<\/p>\n

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*No copyright claimed on Modern Quilt Studio image. thanks to Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle for allowing me to use it. See the original blog post<\/a> on the Craft Nectar blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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